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Is your company name still free?

Compared with the KBO register · free

Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector.

“IRCANTEC”

An active company already has this name

The name is not unique in the register. In another sector the risk of confusion is smaller, but customers and search engines do not always make that distinction.

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Same or very similar names

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • IRCANTEC same name
    Angers · since 1987
  • IRCANTEX very similar
    Anjers · since 1985
Names that resemble it 6 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • SCANTEC similar
    Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Grâce-Hollogne · since 1986
  • IRONTEC similar
    Wholesale of machine tools · Charleroi · since 1990
  • SCANTEC similar
    Abbreviation of SCANTEC INDUSTRIES · Wholesale of other machinery and equipment · Antwerpen · since 1994
  • i-Man TEC similar
    Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Brasschaat · since 2022
  • IRENTEC similar
    Charleroi · since 2012
  • ANTEC similar
    Agents in the wholesale of industrial machinery, ships and aircraft · Antwerpen · since 1997

What this check does and does not say

  • We compare against every name in the KBO register today: the name, the abbreviation and the trade names of enterprises and their establishments. Capitals, accents, punctuation and legal forms (bv, nv, srl, ...) do not count.
  • This is not a trademark search. A name can be free in the register and still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the registers of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP, boip.int) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, euipo.europa.eu).
  • A domain name or a social media handle is also separate from the register.

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